David Hacking, 3rd Baron Hacking

The Right Honourable The Lord Hacking
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
as a hereditary peer 7 November 1971 – 11 November 1999
Preceded by	The 2nd Baron Hacking
Succeeded by	Seat abolished
Incumbent
as an elected hereditary peer 19 November 2021
By-election	19 November 2021
Preceded by	The 3rd Viscount Simon
Personal details
Born	(1938-04-17) 17 April 1938 (age 86)
Political party	Labour (1998-2003, since 2021) Conservative (until 1998)
Alma mater	Clare College, Cambridge Inns of Court School of Law

David Hacking, 3rd Baron Hacking (born 17 April 1938), is a British arbitrator, barrister and hereditary peer.[1]

Education and military career

He was educated at Aldro preparatory school, Charterhouse and Clare College, Cambridge, from where he graduated BA in 1961; he received his MA in 1968. His professional education was at the Inns of Court School of Law. He served in the Royal Naval Reserve from 1954 to 1964, seeing active service 1956-8 and reaching the rank of Lieutenant.

Career in law

Hacking is a qualified barrister and solicitor in England and Wales as well as an Attorney in the United States. He has worked for over 40 years as an international arbitrator and mediator of commercial disputes.

House of Lords

Having inherited the title Baron Hacking from his father in 1971, Hacking sat in the House of Lords for over 20 years, contributing to reform of arbitration law and related areas. Having sat as a Conservative, in 1998 he defected to Labour over the European and law and order policies of then party leader William Hague.[2] He lost his automatic right to a seat under the House of Lords Act 1999. He sought to return to the House in the by-election caused by the death of Lord Milner of Leeds in 2003.[3] From 2009 to 2014, he stood in several subsequent by-elections as a crossbencher, but only succeeded in 2021 as a Labour candidate to replace Viscount Simon, 47 years after he first entered the Lords in 1974. He took the oath again on Thursday, 2 December 2021, Lord Hacking made his second maiden speech on 7 February 2022, reflecting on the number of Baronesses in the Lords compared to when he left in 1999, remembering his first maiden speech which he nearly made 50 years ago, on 26 April 1972 & the amount of amendments on legalisation going through the Lords. Lord Hacking is the oldest hereditary peer to have been elected during hereditary peers by elections.

Arms

Coat of arms of David Hacking, 3rd Baron Hacking

Crest In front of an oak tree eradicated two axes in saltire all Proper. Escutcheon Argent on a chevron Azure between three roses Gules barbed and seeded Proper two bird bolts of the field feathered Or. Supporters On either side a griffin Gules on the shoulder an escutcheon Argent charged with a blue-bottle (cyanus) stalked and leaved Proper. Motto Dominus Providebit [4]

References

1. Farrell, Sean (10 January 2000). "David Hacking". The Lawyer. Retrieved 28 June 2011.
2. "Conservative peer defects to take seat on Labour benches". Independent.co.uk. 14 June 1998. Retrieved 22 February 2014.
3. "United Kingdom Election Results - House of Lords Act: Hereditary Peers Elections (scroll down page to section headed 'Labour')". Archived from the original on 21 January 2013. Retrieved 16 January 2011.
4. Burke's Peerage. 1949.

External links

• Official website

Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Douglas Hacking	Baron Hacking 1971–present Member of the House of Lords (1971–1999)	Incumbent Heir apparent: Hon. Douglas Hacking
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by The Viscount Simon	Elected hereditary peer to the House of Lords under the House of Lords Act 1999 2021–present	Incumbent